[Please read the article – Not This Time – before these comments from Cindy Beckett to understand what is going on.]

By Cindy Beckett

I keep saying this ad nauseum……I don’t care who it is – the Tacoma rescue bunch, the executive and his lying planning dept, or the so-called lead for HUD in WA who refuses to even let people contact her………..

You may NOT break Federal law for any reason including to suit personal desires or self aggrandizement.  The wetlands and shorelines of this lake [Spanaway Lake], and the lake itself, and the water that leaves this lake and ultimately enters tidal Budd Inlet at Chambers are all 100% protected by State therefore Federal law!  That is not for this county to doubt or disbelieve.

No county executive, no “lead” for a rescue mission, no “lead” for a HUD office, no elected councils or any dept of this county have any authority to break these laws or to permit the breaking of these laws solely to promote and approve the destruction of the100% impervious surfaces beside this lake, nor to allow contaminated groundwater to enter that lake.

Period!

What this needs is for everyone here to finally grasp this, and for everyone to start emailing and phoning all parties in this debacle, for everyone to stop assuming someone else will so they don’t have to, and to actually make those calls themselves and tell them just that.  As for region 10 HUD, their corporate office in DC is going to hear from me this week as they may not grant funding if Federal laws will be broken, and I have already filed a complaint against the region 10 HUD for never, ever answering their phones.  They are a public servant entity, paid by the taxpayers.  They do not have the right to refuse to answer the phones that WE pay for, and like it or not they are answerable for allowing this most serous breaking of Federal law.

Pierce county is not an island unto itself, is not self governing even though they seem to think they are, and is obligated to uphold the laws that protect this lake’s shoreline or risk their funding.  This applies to any office of any government, county or State, or any agency who is providing funding.

That’s just how it works.  I truly wish folks here would stop assuming someone else is “handling” it so they don’t have to.  That’s what has caused such devastating loss of our water resources to date.  No one will speak up.  Why remains the question.

Why won’t you?  Why don’t you?  If you can’t answer that, stop complaining and mumbling about it.  If you can finally answer that and realize there is no reason to not do that, then for goodness sake pick up your phones, send emails, and let these “leaders” know you the people refuse to permit this to be done to YOUR lake and you insist that they once and for all abide by the LAW!  That is in fact what you are paying them to do – uphold the law.

Stop assuming someone else is doing it – pick up your phones, get on your emails, and speak up!!!!!  Silence is not golden.

Cindy

RCW 34.05.040

Operation of chapter if in conflict with federal law.

If any part of this chapter is found to be in conflict with federal requirements which are a condition precedent to the allocation of federal funds to the state,the conflicting part of this chapter is inoperative solely to the extent of the conflict and with respect to the agencies directly affected, 

and such findings or determination shall not affect the operation of the remainder of this chapter in its application to the agencies concerned.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

U.S. Constitution, Article VI